Comment: The Day Of Atonement is coming, Yom Kippur. I would like to talk about it precisely this year when we see what is happening in the world.

My Response: I think the world should already at least feel the need for this.

Question: So is the Day of Atonement in some way special this year? It is considered one of the most important holidays in Judaism when people read prayers of repentance, ask for forgiveness, and generally prepare for the fact that the inscription will be made in the Book of Life. As I understand, you are now going to say that this is so for the world too, right?

Answer: For everyone.

Comment: This holiday is always perceived with some awe. At least here in Israel everything stops.

There is silence, and both believers and non–believers, everyone is somehow afraid, and even trembling before this day. Tell us a little about this holiday.

My Response: Actually, it is hard to call it a holiday, because a holiday is something fun, light, and bright. I think this is actually Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when we can really rejoice that we are able to redeem ourselves.

Question: So, is there still joy?

Answer: Yes, this is a day of joy. But then, I do not know how people actually celebrate this day. It seems to me that they should, of course, be aware. It is said that a person should think about the way he lived this year, the way he tried to be kind, to do good, to be a conduit of the good Creator in the world.

Question: Is this what a person should think about on this holiday?

Answer: He should, yes. I think that ordinary people, in principle, are not so immersed in evil and therefore there is nothing to fear for the Day of Atonement. What can they be judged for? Evil was born before a person, evil, envy, and other negative properties. So a person is just human. What else can be said about him?

Question: What is this holiday for?

Answer: I think that this holiday is most likely for a person to think about why he was created this way. How he would like to correct himself a little. Although creation is the creation of the Creator, let us assume that a person has the opportunity to correct himself a little. How would he do it, in which way?

Question: Is his intention one way or another for good, for warmth, and for love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why does he ask for forgiveness? There are many prayers, called Slichot. He says, “I am sorry! I am sorry!” All the time “I am sorry!” What is there to forgive if he was created this way?

Answer: I am sorry that You made me so nasty, mean, insignificant, harmful, bringing only evil and misfortune to everyone. I ask You very much, to help me straighten up, improve, and be at least a little better.

Question: Are the aspirations of a person not to ruin another, but on the contrary, to become better?

Answer: I think that if a person seriously thought about everything that happens to him, how he was created, and what he could be at all, then he would ask for correction of what the Creator created in him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/18/23

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Question: We study that the Creator is good and does good. But we see a lot of evil in the world: wars, murders, and crimes. How can we see this as a manifestation of the good Creator? Sometimes it seems impossible.

Answer: We cannot understand this yet. To do this we need to rise a little above our world, and then we will see in a perspective from the beginning to the end of creation what it should go through. Only to this extent will we be able to justify the Creator. Otherwise, in our eyes and in our properties there is nothing more terrible than the Creator.

Everything that happens in the world comes from Him. Therefore, evil is a manifestation of His governance. We must see ourselves as the chosen ones in order to change this governance from evil to good.

Therefore it is said: “I have created the evil inclination and gave the Torah to correct it.” The Torah is the upper light that we must attract upon ourselves, and to this extent we will begin to feel how our world turns into good. This is all entrusted to us. Let’s try to do it.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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Question: I look at some friends who seem to conceal themselves, they never open up. Why do you always say: “Do not think about me, think about the Creator?” Where and what is the strength here?

Answer: When I came to Rabash, I saw six or seven old men sitting and studying different books. I did not understand these texts yet and actually did not know how to read them. It was very difficult: I knew nothing, did not understand, and did not see what the relationship between them was.

They hardly spoke to each other; only when reading books did they sometimes exchange one or two words.

But gradually, their language became clear to me, and I saw why they behaved this way—so as not to interfere with the general reading. I realized that they think about each other and help each other.

Nothing was visible from the outside. This is the work in the heart. Kabbalists even encourage us to hide what is in our hearts.

The opening of the heart occurs from within, in desires. But there was nothing there in words. If I were judging by their words, I would generally think that some old people were sitting there who have nothing to do, and they are just getting together and reading. What else should they do at the age of seventy?

But I do not think you will have to wait until you are seventy. You will reveal your feelings to your friends earlier, and they will reveal them to you. Without words!
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: Egoism separates and splits everything, and the Creator glues everything together and makes it one. How, nevertheless, can we not divide the tens and even friends in the ten into individual people, but see the entire network of connections both inside the ten, inside the world Kli, and inside the entire world?

Answer: During the convention, the unity of all our friends is possible. It does not matter at all where we live and what languages we speak.

This is a convention, Kenes, from the word “Hitkansut (Assembly), mutual connection.

But if we are talking about a spiritual structure, then it is united in tens, and we should not break tens, but on the contrary, strengthen them.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: What does it mean to make room for the Creator in our connection?

Answer: It means that by uniting together we want the Creator to fit into our common desire, which we make up from our private desires.

When the ten completely unites and we want to be filled with the light of the Creator, then the light of Yechida that can fill our ten will mean the appearance of the Creator.

If we are united, nothing will interfere with the light.

Question: What determines how much and with what quality light will enter the Kli?

Answer: It depends on our feelings, desires, how much we have mutual rejections, and how much we rise above them and still want to be together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: I was offended by my ten and the Creator. I flew to the convention from another country and six friends from my ten who live in Israel, did not come to the group meeting. How else can I ask the Creator for closer connection with my friends?

Answer: Be connected with them all the time, correspond, talk.

You have to establish a connection and be in constant contact with them. We need to understand that day by day the Creator raises egoistic desires in us more and more, and it will be more and more difficult for us to connect with each other.

Thus, we must ensure that the connection between us is stronger and constant.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, of “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: I have a feeling that I am just a black dot in which there is nothing white. How can I accept and not condemn this state of slavery?

Answer: Each of us is a black dot, and this is our initial egoistic state.

We have to invert ourselves and become a white dot against the background of a black world. And then many more white dots will be added to us, and the world will become bright.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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A person who wants to feel the Creator must connect with the hearts of his friends, and then through them, inside them, he will feel the Creator. Our common heart, which we are building together, will be a place, a detector for revealing and feeling the Creator, and will allow us to connect with Him.

We need to build and keep such a heart in order to keep the connection with the Creator all the time. This is all in our power. The Creator really wants each of us to rise above our egoistic heart and connect with the hearts of our friends so that in this connection, we begin to feel, attain, and connect with the Creator, to adhere to Him.

This is the work we have to do at the convention and every day in general. We need to build the same state that should be at the complete correction of the world.

Who knows better than us how much the world needs correction and that it does not even know where to look for salvation? We must bring correction to the world and give it hope for a good future. All problems will be solved by our connection.

So let us try to connect our hearts into one heart in order to feel the upper force, our entire universe, and how all this infinity enters into our common heart. I hope that we will be able to open our hearts and begin to accept all humanity, all reality, and all the worlds there. Then we will feel that this entire infinite universe in which we exist is inside our hearts and that the Creator fills all this space.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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